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Our Garden Walks
Dahlia that I found on clearance at Lowes While I’m not much of a routine person, our mornings nearly are always the same. The boys wake up right around the time my husband hops in the shower, they play on the bed or in the bathroom until he is dressed, and then we all go downstairs where they get chocolate milk and begin systematically destroying the first floor of the house with their toys and breakfast. Around 8am, we bust…
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Evening Garden Walk
Purple basil amongst onions Sure sign the squash borers weren’t all extracted Bean, squash and gourd tunnel Corn! Checking out the really big squash
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Evening Garden Walk
Birdhouse gourd “Magnus” Coneflower Italian Climbing Squash – when do I harvest this?
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Squash Talk. Climbing “Trombetta”
This morning, which happens to be the Baby’s first birthday, a female blossom opened on the Climbing “Trombetta” Squash, an Italian summer heirloom from Renee’s Garden. There have been a couple other blossoms that never opened and eventually fell off. I had two squash vines and one gourd vine on this trellis, but I lost my other Trombetta vine to pests. I was beyond thrilled to be greeted by this one. Not wanting to risk it going to waste, I…
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Garden Envy
Confession: if you are already harvesting squash, I don’t like you. Well, okay, maybe I like you but I’m mad at you. After all, I blog about gardening. I take pretty pictures of plants. And yet, my entire nectarine tree is covered in brown rot, the beans are holier than the Virgin Mary, and my summer squash plants will not grow. The climbing Italian summer squash from Renee’s Garden Seeds is doing awesome, but the generic yellow squash that everyone and their…
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10 Weeks of Vegetable Gardening: Week 7
Each Friday I am posting a weekly guide for prepping your home vegetable garden. In Raleigh, the last killing frost date is April 11 (on average, give or take a week), so my first weekend for planting (summer crops) outdoors is April 9 We impulsively go to Lowes on the weekends. We just can’t hold ourselves back. Even Scooby requests it, always hoping for a turn on the riding mowers. This week I found myself stopping at Walmart, Burkes Brothers,…
